Event ID tool

[PackMan]

Here's the result of a small 2 hour project of mine (I'm converting to C# and I needed something easy to start with): www.modhoi.com/download/tools/hoi_id.zip

It's a small tool that scan the files in your event HOI folder and give you the result of which event id's that are free and which ones that are not.

 

[Gen. Skobelev]

Great tool, thank you! It will be very useful in doing personal modding on some of the major mods. One question, though. Does it look into subfolders also?

 

[unmerged(58571)]

Can it be used to identify in which file a specific event ID is used, or does one still need grep for that?
Oh, and where's the decimal-fix for your savegame fix?

 

[PackMan]

Can it be used to identify in which file a specific event ID is used, or does one still need grep for that?
Oh, and where's the decimal-fix for your savegame fix?

I'm sure that can be arranged
I thought you dropped the interest in the decimal-fix program
If not, let's fix that too.

Does it look into subfolders also?

No, would that be interesting?

 

[unmerged(58571)]

You could extend it to scan for duplicate minister/leader/tech team IDs too!

 

[Gen. Skobelev]

You could extend it to scan for duplicate minister/leader/tech team IDs too!

Agree!

And the point about subfolders came to my mind as some (most?) of the mods use moddir. It would be nice if the program would look into both event folder and possible subfolders in there.

 

[ADukes]

Doesn't work with events not part of the event folder.

 

[hito1]

Whoa! Thanks!

 

[IndoEsia45]

Is this compatible with vista ??

 

[PackMan]

Is this compatible with vista ??

Well I can't see why not. I believe Vista is shipped with framework 2 (which is exactly the framework I have used for this tool).

 

[unmerged(42723)]

Nice little tool, saved me some headaches

Good job :thumbsup:

 

[unmerged(52476)]

That could come in handy

Thanks!

 

[unmerged(19841)]

nice work Packman...

 

[unmerged(76495)]

A bit OT.

But why did you convert to C# ( and what did you convert from ) ?

 

[PackMan]

Thank you for those kind words guys!

A bit OT.

But why did you convert to C# ( and what did you convert from ) ?

Since our office is moving over to C# (from VB.Net) I figured I'd do the same in private. It takes a bit of rethinking but since the framework itself is the big obstacle in learning .Net (which I'd say I know fairly well by now) it should be all downhill in a few weeks from now

If you have more questions on this I'll be more then happy to answer them, and if so, it's for the best if we continue that discussion on PM or email (we don't want to upset the moderators ).

Right now I'm working on the next version of this tool that allows the the user to choose his/her own directory to scan (including sub folders). You also get the option to scan minister-, leader- and techteam files for id's.

Any more requests while I'm at it?

 

[PackMan]

New version to download.

If you liked the first one you'll appreciate this one as well.

- Subfolders included in the scan
- Support for both minister/tech/leader and event files.
- Filter function added
- Export to file function added

Get your copy here

 

[IndoEsia45]

Woaa, nice !!
I'll download now !

 

[ADukes]

Something I'd like to see is that the program can mark events already triggered and/or slept ones from a savegame.

 

[PackMan]

Something I'd like to see is that the program can mark events already triggered and/or slept ones from a savegame.

Though an interesting suggestion I can't see how that would be feasible if say the historyfile is missing.
Maby I'm missing something?

 

[Luxor]

Though an interesting suggestion I can't see how that would be feasible if say the historyfile is missing.
Maby I'm missing something?

In the savegame you have all triggered/slept events.

Look for history = { and for sleepevent = {